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We've included here a few examples of animations created by various researchers in different domains. Several of them include the .son file so you can regenerate the same movie. Please contact us if you have something for us to include.

NOTE: most of these are .MOV files and will reqiure the QuickTime viewer, and are all from 1 to 20 MB in size, so don't look at them over a dialup connection! In some cases an .AVI file is also included

Simulated transition networks from Knecht Friendship Data generated by SIENA using parameters estimated from the data.

Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw's PhD dissertaion on Shared Representations in Collaborative Design Interaction explores semantic networks and interactions among people in a technical design team. He uses SoNIA in his analysis to present the animated networks alongside the video recordings of the interactions.

The Network Modeling Project at the University of Washington is using SoNIA to develop visualization techniques for dynamic network and infectious disease transmission models. This movie shows the output of a toy Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM) with assortitive mixing and a very basic infection process built in statnet

Football Passing Patterns

Paul Ingram

The Life of the Party website shows Paul Ingram's Columbia Business School work with social interaction (conversation proximity) networks recorded during a mixer party

Moving with Meaning movie

A movie showcasing some of the work done in SoNIA as submission to the netsci06 visualization contest showcasing several of the examples above. Also includes a nice animated intro explaining the visualization. More info here